Carnage At The VA -- Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/11/carnage-at-the-va/
The email said more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for diseases ranging from metastatic head and neck cancers, to kidney disease, to traumatic brain injuries.
“Enrollment in clinical trials is stopping,” the email warned, “meaning veterans lose access to therapies.”
The administration reversed some of its decisions, allowing some trials to continue for now. Still, other research, including the trials for treating head and neck cancer, has been stalled.
President Donald Trump has long promised to prioritize veterans.
“We love our veterans,” he said in February. “We are going to take good care of them.”
After the Department of Veterans Affairs began shedding employees and contracts, Trump’s pick to run the agency, Secretary Doug Collins, pledged, “Veterans are going to notice a change for the better.”
But dozens of internal emails obtained by ProPublica reveal a far different reality. Doctors and others at VA hospitals and clinics across the country have been sending often desperate messages to headquarters detailing how cuts will harm veterans’ care. The VA provides health care to roughly 9 million veterans.
Why would they do this, you wonder? Even Republicans used to hold the VA pretty sacred. Well, according to Rolling Stone:
I think that’s right. These cuts are going to benefit someone and it isn’t the veterans or the taxpayers.
Oh, but Trump is planning to spend tens of millions on a military parade on his birthday so that’s nice. But no disabled vets will be allowed. He doesn’t like to see that.
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that he doesn't like to see or be seen with disabled people. He has a lot of nerve to demand a military parade when he is doing this to vets. He wants to celebrate our world war victories without paying attention to how that was accomplished. He was playing golf while the bodies of our deceased soldiers were flown home. He considers our soldiers "suckers and losers" and can't be bothered to suffer a little rain in order to honor the dead vets.
I hope this piece of trash gets what he deserves, and it isn't a parade to display our military might. Cadet Bone Spurs is the loser here, not our guys, but we need to see him in the rear view mirror in order to restore honor and dignity to Veterans.
Hold your heads up!
Tough shit, tenderfoot. YOU go out and put YOUR miserable spoiled-ass life and limbs on the line for our country.
Oh, I forgot. You’re too busy at the country club or the fancy banquet table.
